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Palestinians lost the right to claim they're not Hamas when they elected Hamas to lead them.
The opposition party only has 14 percent support.
The different is that Trump has never cracked 40 percent support in the US. Hamas has gotten at high as 75 percent among the Palestinians.
Also Trump lost the popular vote. Democrats have always had more support.
Hamas's opposition only has 14% support.
So sure, not all Palestinians support Hamas, but the overwhelming majority of them either support Hamas strongly or are on the fence about them.
It's hard to form an opposing party when the regime has a tendency to assassinate anyone who does. Do Palestinians really support the principles of Hamas, or are there just no other options in Gaza?
I totally agree. Palestinians have a difficult road forward. But them sorting their own shit out is a prerequisite to their ability to make and execute a peace treaty.
It was Israel who decided that they wanted Hamas to lead palestinians rather than the Palestine Liberation Organization.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
For decades the PLO had shown that they were not interested in peaceful coexistence. And that would prove to be true in the following decades as well.
In funding the PLO's political opposition, Israel was attempting to charge the political landscape, and weaken the PLO.
Remember the PLO might have been secular, but they were still terrorists.
In that context you can see how creating the group that would someday much later evolve into hamas was a bad gamble, but hindsight is 20-20.